Posted on 08/13/2022 10:24:01 PM PDT by Morgana
German police employed batons, pepper spray and water cannons against a group of eco-zealots on Saturday as they staged a sit-down protest on a major railway supply line in Hamburg.
Dozens of protesters, led by the eco-mob Ende Gelande - which translates to 'here and no further' - attempted to disrupt the major northern city by blockading the Kattwyk Railway Bridge, which leads to the nearby harbour.
Ahead of their action, Extinction Rebellion, who were also involved, said: 'We are blocking a central hub of German foreign trade here to draw attention to the consequences of modern colonialism.'
The sit-down on the bridge was one in a series of blockades involving more than 1,000 people at different locations, designed to 'interrupt cargo traffic' in protest against 'the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure and colonial supply chains.'
The protesters' main gripe is a slew of new LNG (liquified natural gas) terminals which are set to 'cover the German coast'. LNG can be extracted and imported from abroad and connected to a country's pipelines to create energy, and its usage is being ramped up in Germany as Europe's biggest economy looks to become less reliant on Russian gas following Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
According to police, some of the eco-warriors on the bridge used pepper spray on officers when they tried to move them along, sparking clashes.
Police said they used pepper spray back, before employing batons and water cannons to break up the blockade. The activists said in an update at 5pm local time that the authorities were blocking drinking water being delivered to the protesters while also keeping out members of the press and medics, adding that 'parliamentary observers are on site.'
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Hoped the police only used an eco-friendly green water spray.
Perhaps the police should try live ammo for a change.
These ecowhackos already had way too much control there over 30 years ago. They wouldnt be in so much trouble now if they had done this then. Germany has coal, arrest them all and hand each one of those idiots a shovel.
The German police are dealing with them??? I thought the whole German government was woke, and on their side? Maybe I was wrong. 😆🧐🤗😂🤭
Its a start.
They woke up from being woke.
Maybe there is still hope for society. Rumor has it, however, they had to come light years, to be unwoke, because they were totally woke. 😆😂
“consequences of modern colonialism”
Don’t quite get that
The climate lunatics deserve all they receive.
What refreshing news to grace my early morning! Poor snowflakes their drinking water arrived by water cannon express.
Use more force, give them lengthier and lengthier prison sentences. You simply cannot allow yourselves and your entire economy to be held hostage to fanatical weather god worshippers.
Reality is finally starting to dawn on the Germans - including the government.
To Leftists everything is “colonialism”....even when that means removing White Western authors from the curricula of universities in Western countries.
As I’ve tried to explain, no. White people are the natives here. Removing them isn’t “de-colonizing”, removing them and replacing them with the works of anybody else is colonizing...but of course it doesn’t count if its trashing the history and culture of White people.
Good. 👍
Mix the water with some puke spray and watch the effect.
If only the Floyd mob had been treated that way.
Why are protesters using batons, pepper spray and water cannon to bring Hamburg to a standstill? Shouldn't the police be using those things?
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